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2. Jump into a Category
Say you’re looking for “Fashion”. There is something we call quick select that you can choose to only view “Fashion” listings nearby. Hit that and you’ll get to see the best deals in your area.

3. Latest Postings in Your City
Swapit is a hyperlocal marketplace, which means you’ll always get to see relevant listings that are nearby. Hit the “Latest” quick select to get a list of all listings that were posted in your city. The most recent one is at the top.

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Swapit has been built to be intuitive. So using it feels natural and you’ll discover many new things while you’re browsing our huge catalog of listings. Should there be no listing in your vicinity yet, just list something from your home. You’ll be the first one in your area. So you get the prime spot!

HOW TO GET IT
Privately, secure and save.

Getting the bargain you just found through browsing Swapit, is even easier. There are multiple ways to get them. Please have a look below.

1. Make an Offer
If you’ve found an item you’d like to buy, say some nice shoes 👠👟👞, simply open that item and verify that all information in there is to your satisfaction. Now hit the “Make an Offer” button and you can enter the price you are willing to pay for it.

2. Chat to Buy
If you’re not sure about the price yet, but you’d still like to get the shoes, you can click “Chat to Buy” and start a private conversation with the seller. For example, if you need clarification on the quality or the condition of use.

Rest assured, all conversations between buyers and sellers are confidential and you can safely talk about all issues concerning the products of your interest.

Most buyers and sellers on Swapit actually meet up and do their trade in-person. That allows the buyer to inspect the item before paying the seller. Yet, we are working tirelessly to bring new ways of trading to you – in a safe and trusted environment. Swap on and stay tuned for more ways to trade.

While Swapit is growing rapidly every day, sometimes users of Swapit realize that Swapit is not for them. That’s OK, we all know how it is when you try something new and it’s just not your thing – yet. So you might want to close your Swapit account. Below is how you do it.

Before you close your account, though, please consider the options below. Perhaps you’re one of the users who want to close their Swapit account because you get too many notifications or emails. While we try to minimize those to only the necessary ones, we understand that some of you do not even want to receive those. Here is what you can do:

Adjust Notification Settings
Open the Swapit “Settings” and look under “Notifications”, which of the notifications you do not need. If you deactivate all notifications there, you will then only receive chat messages from other customers about your sale posts or the posts you are interested in.

Unsubscribe from Email Newsletter
After joining Swapit You also receive the Swapit newsletter with various tips and tricks about Swapit. Each of those emails has an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of it. If you don’t want those emails anymore, just click the “unsubscribe” link once and you’re done.

Now, if all of this is still not enough for you, here is how you can close your account. It’s easy to do.

To close your account just

Open Swapit

Navigate to your user profile

Hit “Edit”

Select “Close Account”

Follow the instructions shown

Swapit will then basically create a custom email that will be sent to our support system. In that email, we will know your Swapit user ID and with that we’re able to close your account.

We’d like you to tell us your reason why you close the account. While that is optional of course, it would help us a lot in improving Swapit and making sure Swapit is the right for everyone who uses it.

Shortly after you should receive an email that your account has been suspended and it has been scheduled for deletion. From that moment onward, you will not be receiving any further push notifications through the app nor will you be able to browse the Swapit catalog or post items for sale.

If at any point in time before deletion, you’d like to get back into Swapit, please just send us an email and we will re-activate your account. If your account has been deleted already, please create a new one.

This current update comes mainly with cosmetic changes as well as performance and stability improvements. An increased number of Swapit users means also an increased challenge in making sure our product works on all supported devices (phones and tablets) out there. We are monitoring closely the performance of Swapit we take swift action should there be any issues on any devices out there.

Current Release Versions:

Android: 1.15.4.1

iOS: 1.6.6

Note: We will soon make this latest release on both platforms mandatory for everyone.

Sharing to Facebook Messenger (new on iOS)

On iPhones it is now possible to easily share to Facebook Messenger with just one click of a button. At each item listing you can now see a Facebook Messenger icon, which allows you to click & share that item in the easiest way possible.

REMINDER: How to Feature Your First Item for Free

It’s really simple to get your first item to be featured for free. Just follow these few steps:

Post an item for sale.

View the item (either right after posting, or right from your user profile).

Hit the “FEATURE” button at the bottom.

Open the “Coupon Code” bar.

Enter “FIRSTFEATURE” coupon code into the field and hit “APPLY”.

Click the “Feature Your Listing — FREE”.

Done! Congratulations! Your item is now featured!

Here are these steps in screen shots, so you know exactly what I am referring to:

It’s really that easy. Everyone can use the FIRSTFEATURE coupon code once to feature one of their items.

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We have intensified Swapit’s deep integration with Facebook to leverage on the social media network effects and ease of sharing. Today, many people are trading on our Swapit HK Facebook group, but a lot more people are actually trading on our Swapit mobile app. More and more people are joining the Swapit mobile app every day.

Recently, we have also linked our Swapit HK Facebook Group with our Swapit App Facebook Page. That way, our two social media assets on Facebook can combine their force and amplify user engagement with our Swapit brand. This is how it looks like on our Swapit App Facebook Page:

The Swapit HK Facebook Group Stats

There is some impressive amount of trading happening in that one Facebook group since we’ve taken over the helm. Here are the key stats to date:

Total Members: 100,924 (up 66%)

Sale Posts: 165,198 (up 230%)

#1 Category: fashion

Stats as of July 26th, 2017.

While the Swapit HK Facebook group is a good place to start, everyone who wants to get more out of his trading experience, ends up using the Swapit mobile app. It allows posting on the Swapit app – reaching 200,000+ potential buyers – as well as easy sharing into our own Swapit HK Facebook group – reaching an additional 100,000 members – and on top of that, easy sharing into a number of other buy & sell groups on Facebook – reaching more than 700,000 of their members.

To sum it up: Using the Swapit mobile app is the most efficient way to list your items and close a sale.